Services.msc

[Honda]

Hi Team,

How to stop the particular service running in the background using UiPath studio?

Sample code helps a lot

Thanks

[prashant1603765 (Prashant Kumar)]

@Honda

How to stop the particular service running in the background using UiPath studio?

Sample code helps a lot

Hi @Honda

Drag and drop the “Kill Process” activity into your workflow.
Set the ProcessName property (without .exe extension).

Example: Kill Notepad service.
ProcessName = “notepad”

Happy Automation.

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[sonaliaggarwal47 (Sonali Aggarwal)]

Hi @Honda,

If you would like to do it via UiPath, you will need to have the powershell script created as mentioned in below post and then you can invoke the same using Invoke Powershell activity in UiPath. please follow the steps mentioned in below thread:

Windows Services Stopping starting by using PowerShell script

# Prompt user for service name and action (start or stop) $serviceName = Read-Host "Enter the name of the service" $action = Read-Host "Enter 'start' or 'stop' to perform the action" # Get the service object $service = Get-Service -Name $serviceName # Check if the service exists if (!$service) { Write-Host "The service $serviceName does not exist" Exit } # Perform the specified action if ($action -eq "start") { Start-Service $service Write-Host "The $serviceName service has be…

Alternatively, you can simply try doing it using powershell command:

Stopping Services With An Unattended Robot

Hi everyone. I have an automation that uses the invoke powershell activity to stop a service. I had to run UiPath as administrator for it to work. I am now trying to to run this automation using an unattended robot in service mode and I gave UiPath.service.host admin rights however it get the following error Service ‘postgresql-x64-14 - PostgreSQL Server 14 (postgresql-x64-14)’ cannot be stopped due to the following error: Cannot open ‘postgresql-x64-14’ service on computer ‘.’. Is there some…

Hope this helps.

Please note: You also need to consider that service you are trying to stop/restart doesn’t require admin rights, else you would need to run these commands via admin mode. Most of the services under services.msc require admin rights to start/stop.

Regards
Sonali

[sharazkm32 (Sharaz K M)]

@honda_t

Go to Task manager and identify the process name from details section as a first step

Go to Studio and use the activity Kill Process. Enter the name matching under DETAILS in the above screenshot. It will work even if exe extension is not included